unable to load a webpage

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

Hello, I hope I am posting this in the right place.

I am having trouble connecting to a website. I can ping to it and get no dropped packets. I can also get to the website from Windows but for some reason I am not able to load the site in linux by any browser.

I am able to connect to other websites without any problem so I am not sure where to look. I am on a cable modem using dhcp

Any ideas what could be causing this problem or where to look for the answers.

Thanks
Chickpea

rac · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:33 am Post subject:

Are you using the same browser in Windows as you are in Linux? Many websites are poorly built, so that they are unusable by anything other MSIE. What happens? Do you get an error message? A blank screen? Connection times out? Try lying about your User-Agent and/or viewing the HTML source. If you can see the source, it's not a network problem, but a browser problem.
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nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 596 Location: USA

taking another approach from rac's suggestion (which could definitely be the problem, but just in case...), you said you could pint it, right? Have you tried entering the IP address directly into your browser and see if it'll load that? I've actually had the problem before, for whatever reason. If it works, you can try adding an entry in /etc/hosts for it, but a reboot should fix it.

rizzo · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:36 am Post subject:

Do you need to specify proxy settings in your browser? I know that ping usually uses the system's proxy settings, but the browser uses it's own and so you need to tell the browser what the system already knows.

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

I dont use the same web browser for windows and linux. In windows I use IE and in linux i use konqueror, mozilla and/netscape (although nestcape seems to have broken after installing mozilla)

I dont understand how I can ping the website but not connect thru the browser (okay, well I kinda do but still). I have tried konqueror, mozilla, netscape, links, lynx. I have tried them all except for Opera.

I dont connect thru a proxy so I dont think that is my problem. It is just damn annoying. It is only two sites.

I have even tried putting the IP address in the addy bar. Nothing! Nada zilch!

I guess it will be a mystery.

C

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20506

What are the sites? Perhaps the problem isn't limited to you.
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Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

well the site is http://www.hgtv.com and http://www.diynet.com

I like to do a little do it yourself work from time to time. I am curious to see if it works for you.

Thanks!
C

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Both sites load up fine on konqueror. Do you have a firewall that blocks these IPs? One thing you could try is emerge tcptraceroute and then do:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20506

Yeah, they work fine for me too (Galeon). I was hoping they were more obscure or possibly overrun with IE extensions.
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Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

well thanks guys for checking. I will try the traceroute thing. I do have a firewall but I dont have anything in the configuration that should prevent me from loading. However, I suppose it wouldnt hurt to try to shutdown the firewall and see what happens.

Thank you again. Hopefully I will be able to get it figured out.

C

Kabuto · l33t Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 701

Actually ping only tells you that the computer is replying to ping. WWW sites use port 80 for communications. So you can ping boxes without webservers. So ping might be going through your firewall but port 80 HTTP might not be.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20506

Kabuto · l33t Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 701

These two site are both on the same subnet. Maybe something going to these addresses (208.62.120.133 and .134).

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

Blaze · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 24

try wget [url here] and see if you can open the file it downloaded with a browser. Also, if wget fails, see what error message it gives you since it will probably be more informative then anything konq will give you.

Nebajoth · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:43 pm Post subject:

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

Well Guys I am still getting an error message using wget. It is a time out message. wget tried three times.

Sooooo, there must be something strange in my configurations which is preventing me from getting to this site. Now I am just annoyed. Dont understand it.

Oh, well, maybe my Linux box is just too cool for Home and Garden stuff.

Think I will compile Gnome.

Thanks for the help

Cat

entropy · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 32 Location: Denver, CO

Try doing this:

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

FINALLY!!! IT WORKS

Andy, thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Disabling the CONFIG_INET_ECN option worked. Who knew one little thing could make everything so wrong.

Now I can do girly stuff and linux at the same time! Yeah!

Cat